WORK ON FARMS
MEN FROM THE CAMPS. By Telegraph.— Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A statement was made yesterday by the acting-Prime Minister, Sir James Allen, that all farmers and farm-work-ers engaged in the camps on home service duties will be released from camp by degrees. Instructions to that effect had been issued, and would affect about 30 men in the Trentham camp, all of whom, however, were not farmers, or farm workers, some having been employed in essential industries. "We shall do our best," Sir James continued, "to supply labour for farms. We can ask them to volunteer for such work. We may have to ask Parliament next session to grant us the power to compel men to work on farms. We have power to compel men in the ballot to do military work or work connected with military operations, but we have no power to compel them to work for a farmey."
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13449, 30 March 1917, Page 5
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153WORK ON FARMS Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13449, 30 March 1917, Page 5
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